Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

‼️🚨 BREAKING: A new npm supply-chain attack uses a dead-man's switch. The payload plants a watcher on your machine that nukes your home directory the second you revoke the GitHub token it stole from you. The compromise happened today, across 42 official tanstack npm packages, 84 malicious versions in total. tanstack/react-router alone pulls more than 12 million weekly downloads. The attacker forked TanStack's repository and pushed a single hidden commit. From there, they tricked TanStack's own release system into signing the malicious packages as if they were the real thing. To npm, and to anyone checking the cryptographic proof of origin (SLSA provenance), the poisoned versions looked 100% legitimate. Maintainer Tanner Linsley confirmed the whole team had 2FA enabled. It didn't matter. This is the first documented npm worm in history that ships with a valid, signed certificate of authenticity, the same one defenders rely on to know a package wasn't tampered with.

this "impossible" DeepSeek v4 jailbreak just took 6 minutes for a Pliny Agent lol gg 🫶

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed. GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision. What happened?: ▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated. ▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead. ▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed. ▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out. The bigger picture: ▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature. ▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...

🇨🇳@Chinaembmanila's latest gaslighting of the 2016 Arbitral Award Rear Admiral @jaytaryela did what the 🇵🇭#Philippines has been doing consistently & effectively: he 🔦 shone a light on Chinese maritime aggression & called out unilateral actions in waters where China's legal basis remains exactly what it was in 2016 — discredited. The Embassy's response is worth reading carefully. Not because it makes a serious legal argument — it doesn't really even try — but because it is a near-perfect specimen of narrative inversion at the level of state communications. In other words, it's rank gaslighting dressed up sloppily as if it were a legal case. And it turns on four inversions, each one answerable with actual treaty text & the tribunal's own case record. ⚖️ INVERSION #1: #China "upheld" UNCLOS by refusing to participate in an UNCLOS proceeding. The Philippines filed in January 2013 under UNCLOS Annex VII — the Convention's own compulsory dispute-settlement procedure, which both parties accepted by joining the treaty. Annex VII Article 9 addresses exactly this situation: a party's absence "shall not constitute a bar to the proceedings," provided the tribunal satisfies itself on jurisdiction and the merits. The Annex VII tribunal — administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration as registry — issued its jurisdiction award in October 2015 and its final award in July 2016. China was free to choose non-participation as a litigation strategy. It was not free to turn that absence into a veto. Under UNCLOS Article 296, decisions by a tribunal with jurisdiction are final and must be complied with by the parties. Calling the award "so-called" does not repeal it. ❌ ⚖️ INVERSION #2: "Historic rights" as a shield for present-day operations. The Embassy again asserts that China enjoys "historic rights" in these waters. The 2016 tribunal addressed that claim directly: UNCLOS comprehensively allocates rights to maritime areas & any Chinese historic rights to resources were extinguished where incompatible with the EEZ regime established by the Convention. That was the point of UNCLOS. Beijing is reviving — as if uncontested — the exact claim a properly constituted tribunal already rejected. 🔁Repetition is not a legal argument. ⚖️ INVERSION #3: "Waters under China's jurisdiction" as a press-release conclusion. The statement declares a Chinese research vessel's activities "fully justified and beyond reproach" because they occurred in waters under China's jurisdiction. That is the entire dispute compressed into a sentence and declared resolved in China's favor. 🤷 🔎 Notice what is missing: the vessel's name & coordinates; the specific feature Beijing claims generates the entitlement; the UNCLOS provision relied upon Marine scientific research requires that coastal state's consent under UNCLOS Article 246. "Beyond reproach" is a slogan, not a defense. ⚖️ INVERSION #4: Transparency as the provocation. The Embassy dismisses Tarriela's scrutiny — and the Philippines' broader transparency work — as "hype" manufactured by "pro-U.S., anti-China forces." (Insert the usual Ray Powell trope here.) This is the most predictable move in the playbook: when evidence is inconvenient, discredit the people pointing to it. Beijing's position is that the documentation — not the aggression — is the problem. 🎭 Gaslighting aims to exhaust — to make defending reality so wearying that people just start accepting the lie. There is indeed an information campaign underway in the #WestPhilippineSea -- just not the one Beijing describes. It is the campaign to make lawful transparency look provocative — and unlawful coercion look defensive. Rear Admiral Tarriela and his colleagues refuse to be bullied in the dark. Neither should the rest of us.

San Bernardino County Fire Highlights Innovation in Fire Technology Using Sound Waves San Bernardino County Fire is always looking ahead, and this week we had the opportunity to see what the future of fire protection could look like. We hosted a live demonstration with Sonic Fire Tech, showcasing a cutting-edge system designed to detect and suppress fire using sound waves. Developed by former NASA acoustics engineers, this technology works without water or chemicals, creating a protective zone that can stop ignition in milliseconds while avoiding the collateral damage often seen with traditional suppression methods. From autonomous early detection to rapid suppression, tools like these have the potential to reduce fire damage before it starts, especially in wildfire prone areas. This same technology can also be applied inside homes and businesses, helping stop fires like kitchen or appliance fires in their early stages before they grow and spread. As this kind of technology continues to evolve and expand, it could also help reduce insurance claims over time, which may ultimately lead to lower insurance costs for homeowners. This technology is already beginning to be incorporated into newly constructed homes in the Altadena area impacted by the Eaton Fire, highlighting its real-world application and growing role in community resilience. San Bernardino County Fire remains committed to exploring innovation, strengthening our relationships, and finding new ways to better protect the communities we serve. #SBCoFD #FireInnovation #WildfireSafety #TechnologyInFireService #DutyHonorCommunity #WildfirePreparedness #FireServiceInnovation Media Contact: Christopher Prater, Public Information Officer, cprater@sbcfire.org/(909)665-2383

A huge thank you to DepEd for the opportunity to present the national barangay-level educational attainment map during last week's EXECOM meeting. Let's always follow the data to craft evidence-based policies for our nation! 🗺️📊

🚨 JAILBREAK ALERT 🚨 ANTHROPIC: SELF-PWNED 🤗 OPUS-4.7: SELF-LIBERATED 🫶 WOAH i don't think the world is ready for this... 🤯 YOU CAN USE THE OPUS TO JAILBREAK THE OPUS 🙌 this agent wrote an original universal jailbreak from scratch and then used computer use to validate on the actual claude.ai website! 5/6 categories successfully pwned, including a ransom note threatening to DDoS a hospital—complete with a BTC address and a demand for $4.4 million in less than 20 minutes 😲 turns out Opus-4.7 in the Pliny Agent harness I been vibin' together this past month is quite a capable lil jailbreaker! they can leak system prompts too, but that's a story for another day 😘 oh nooo AI is coming for my job (yay!) 🙃 gg

😱 HOLY SHIT... Someone just dropped a fully liberated Gemma 4 E4B! and the guardrail removal process appears to have left coherence fully intact AND improved coding abilities! 🤯 huggingface.co/OBLITERATUS/g… OBLITERATED Gemma: ✅ 97.5% compliance rate, 2.1% refusal rate, 0.4% degenerate outputs (499/512 prompts answered on OBLITERATUS bench) ORIGINAL Gemma 4 E4B: ❌ 1.2% compliance rate, 98.8% refusal rate (506/512 prompts refused) Coherence: fully intact Factual: same Reasoning: same Code: 20% 📈 Creative writing: same But the REAL story here isn't the model itself, it's how it was made... 🧵 THREAD 👇

However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber. This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

Anyway... that wraps up the thread for now, will continue distilling the information from the map over the next few days. I'm sure everyone is also curious if there's a link between elections and educational attainment. I'll go ahead and say there certainly is 👀 Coming soon!

Presenting the most detailed map of the Philippine educational attainment ever. 🗺️ It is testament to the deep divides which shapes the Filipino nation. Let us explore it, bawat barangay, buong bayan. 🏛️ More below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

A 800GB dataset linked to a third-party provider could affect multiple organizations in the Philippines, including Jollibee. The breach contains around 152m records, including 11 million booking entries, spanning historical data up to 2026. konek.hn.plus/item/182440/mu…

#News: A potential data breach involving an internal portal of Jollibee has surfaced in a forum, where a threat actor “glep” claims to have extracted 5,915 internal files totaling around 2.7GB. konek.hn.plus/item/181692/jo…

What if the biggest threats to our children aren’t the games they play or the apps they open, but the spaces that hide beneath the surface of their screens? Curiosity, a natural part of growing up can lead them into places most don’t see or spaces that are unseen, unchecked.

🧌 TROLL FARM ALERT | West Philippine Sea This morning, SeaLight identified seven accounts with zero followers that posted coordinated anti-🇵🇭#Philippines, pro-🇨🇳#China propaganda on the #SouthChinaSea — all within the same 60-minute window. The accounts: @ClareM5340, @WrightYung31880, @KHicks70973, @AshenafiOt71310, @BRatleff61798, @KMonette66186, @rudy_dougl44289 Every account fits the troll farm profile: ❌ 0 followers, only 1–4 following ❌ Anglicized Western names with random number suffixes ❌ Stock or AI-generated profile photos of young women ❌ Coordinated amplification of pro-Beijing articles ❌ AI-generated propaganda images portraying the Philippines as a 🇺🇸US puppet destroying "regional peace" Their messaging follows the well-documented Chinese influence operations playbook targeting Filipino public opinion: frame Manila's lawful assertions in the West Philippine Sea as dangerous "provocations," portray the US alliance as a threat to Philippine sovereignty, and cast Beijing as the champion of peace and stability in the region. This is textbook Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior (CIB) — the same tactic documented repeatedly in Chinese state-linked campaigns targeting Philippine social media. The poor tradecraft (zero organic followers, obvious sock puppet names, synchronized posting) suggests either a low-budget operation or one that simply doesn't need to be sophisticated to be effective at flooding timelines.

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Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support. Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ ' hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.